Pencil.



0. A. OLSON.

PENCIL. APPLICATION FILED APR-16, 39H.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

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PENCIL To all whom it may concern:

Be it known, that I, OSCAR A. Orson, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Ames, in the county. of Story and State of Iowa, haveinvented 'a certam new and useful Pencil, of which the fllOW1Ilg 1s aspecification. Q

' e The object of my invention is to provide a pencil of comparativelysimple, durable and inexpensive construction, having a casing made ofopaque or transparent material, as may be desired, adapted to receive-astrip of flexible material of such type as will carry a blank memorandumspace, written, printed, or photographic matter, blueprints, etc,

1 the parts being so arranged that by rotating a portion of the devicethe strip may be wound upon a central drum or the like, a portion of thestrip being arranged .to project from the casing, so that the strip maybe drawn out any time A further object is to provide such a device fromwhich the strips may be readily removed forreplacement by others.

A further object is to provide such a device from which the pencil partis readily removable for permitting its use for writing on the stripmentioned;

With these and other objects in view r-j gmy invention consists in theconstruction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of thedevice, whereby the objects cons templated are attained, as hereinaftermore fully set forth, pointed out in my claim, and: llustrated in theaccompanying'drawings, m which:

Figure 1 shows aside elevation or a pencil embodying my invention. v 1 IFig. 2 shows a side elevation of a casing, illustrating the slottherein.

Fig. 3 shows a transverse, sectional view through the casing.

Fig. -shows a lan view of the combined reinforcement an clip for holdingthe pencil in a pocket.

- Fig. 5 shows a side elevation of the pencil with the casing removed.

Fig. 6 shows. a sectional view taken line 66 of Fig. 4, and

Fig. 7 shows a vertical, sectioaal view taken through the pencll'shqwn mFig. 1, the strip of flexible material belng removed.

In the accompanying, drawings, I have used the reference character a toillustrate a hollow cylinder preferably made of metal on the forming thecasing of my improved mncil.

Specification of Letters Intent;

a puembn fled A ril 10, 1911. semi 80.188358 Y device in the PatentedApr. 16,1918.

The casing a is open at'both ends, and is provided witha longitudinal-slot f. In one' end of the casing a is mounted a suitable plug .or thelike 6, which comprises a body of suitable material with a casing memberpreferably of metal surrounding the same. The casing member projectsupwardly beyond thebody and forms a receiver for a'rubber tip 0,

In the lower part of the body of the plug b is an opening to receive theupper end of a small cylinder 7', which forms a drum for the flexiblestrip hereinafter referred to. In tile cylinder 1' is alongitudinallyarranged s 0t 10. a 1

At the end of the casing,a opposite the 3 one having the member I) is acylinder 9 having near its upper end an annular, outwardly extending ribm. The upper end n of the cylinder above the rib m is designed to betightly received within the lower end of the casing a. Received in the11, per end of the cylinder '9 is a plug 11 0 suitable material havingin its upper surface an opening to receive the lower end of thecylindery', as shown in Fig. 7. The cylinder 9 is preferably provided onits inner surface just below the plug 11 with a lug 12.

Received in the lower end of the cylinder 9 is a pencil it, having anotch formed in its up er end to receive the lug 12; the pencil isesigned to fit tightly within the cylinder 9, so that when the pencil isrotated the cyllnder 9 will rotate therewith.

When the parts are assembled, I provide a strip cl having at its innerend .a loop a through which is extended a wire r. The wire 1- and loop'0 are extended through the slot p and are received within the cylinder7'.

V The strip-d is of some suitable material which may be written uponwith a pencil or which ma receive printed characters, or photograp s orviews.

- The strip (5 may be wound upon the cylinder 3' by rotatin the pencilh. The strip 01 extends outwar ly through the slot f in the casing a andhas at its outer end a hem or loop to. The strip at is detachable andinterchangfiable and may be removed or inserted at W1 Extended throughthe loop a is a rod t formed on one end of which is a spring clip ehaving at. its end a curved clip e. The clip a is outside the hem or 100u and is designed to form a clip for ho ding the entire pocket.

In the practical use of the device, the arts are assembled, and if it isdesired to raw out the strip 6, the user may grasp the clip e and pullFigs. 1 and 6. The pencil it may be pulled out of the cylinder 9, andused for writing on the strip 0?, if desired. V

The strip 05 may be used for carrying telephone numbers, or otherdesired informatlon or for receiving advertisements, views, generalinformation, etc. 4

W hen the strip 0? has been used, the pencil it may be reinserted intothe cylinder g, and rotated, thereby rotating the cylinderg and thecylinder for winding the strip at onto vthe cylinder 3.

The member lower portion 7 of the member d into the casing a.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of theparts of my improved pencil without departing from the essentialfeatures and principles of my invention, and it 1s my intention to coverby the claim of the patent to be issued upon my application any modifiedforms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which the strip out,as shown in Z) is provided with an annular rib 9 for limiting theinsertion of the asaeva i may be included within the-scope of myclaim.

ll claim as m invention:

In a device 0 "the class described, the combination'of a casing having alongitudinally elongated slot in its well, a hollow cylinder rotatablyreceived in said casing having a slot in its wall, means for rotatablysupporting said cylinder, said means comprlsmg 'a' plug in one end ofsaid casing, a rotatable cylinder in the other end of said casing, meanscarried by said rotatable cylinder for supporting strip of suitablematerial extended through bothv of said slots, means for securing oneendozt said strip within the first cylinder, a pencil having one endreceived in said second cylinder, said pencil and second cylinder havingcoacting means whereby when one end of said first cylinder, a v

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